Historical Imagination - Hermeneutics and Cultural Narrative

This book is a phenomenological and hermeneutical investigation into the nature of historical imagination. Carefully defining historical imagination, the book probes the relationship between the imaginative and the empirical, as well as the relationship between historical understanding and self-understanding

List of contents

Introduction: Changing the Record
Chapter 1: Historical Imagination I: Interpretation, Narrative, Constructivism
Chapter 2: Historical Imagination II: Evidence and Intentionality
Chapter 3: Early Christian Reimaginings
Chapter 4: Renaissance Reimaginings
Chapter 5: Enlightenment Reimaginings
Chapter 6: Historical Imagination and Cultural Studies
Conclusion

About the author

Paul Fairfield is professor of philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. He has authored, edited, or coedited numerous books in different areas of hermeneutics and phenomenology. His most recent book is Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change (2020).

Product details

• Authors: Paul Fairfield
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781538156537
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5653-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Social Imaginaries
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Renaissance, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Medieval Philosophy, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600